Integrative Psychotherapy is about working with different aspects of yourself and your difficult experiences including your emotions, behaviours, thoughts, physical and spiritual health. It enables you to deal with life in a more open and connected way by understanding your problem and yourself, recognising your triggers and patterns. It can include working with different types of therapies such as:
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy allows you to talk freely and explore your inner world and how you relate to others through your experiences of memories, dreams, anxieties and wishes. In this therapy you will focus on early life experiences and how that affects you in your present life. It also works with the unconscious.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT is a structured evidence-based talking therapy that can help manage problems by changing the way you think (your cognitions) and the way you respond (your behaviours). CBT focuses on thoughts, beliefs and attitudes. It can help promote self awareness by learning the difference between unhelpful and helpful thinking patterns, feelings and behaviours. CBT can help to reduce emotional distress. It is most commonly used to treat different types of anxiety disorders and depression. In this therapy you focus on the here and now, present difficulties rather than focusing on the past.
Eye Movement Densensitisation Reprocessing Therapy
EMDR Therapy is a focused and phased interactive therapy that is used for treatment of trauma and post traumatic stress. It utilises the natural healing power of the brain for adaptive resolution to remove the emotional charge of distressing past events. It can also be used for treatment of phobias and specific anxieties linked to past traumas. EMDR therapy does not require you to talk indepth about your past experiences.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
IPT is a time-limited, focused evidence-based approach to treating depression by improving the quality of interpersonal relationships and social functioning to reduce emotional distress. IPT focuses on working with the client to address interpersonal difficulties in one of four possible areas – 1. unresolved grief if the onset of distress is linked to the death of a loved one. 2. Difficult life transitions such as retirement, divorce, ending of a relationship. 3. Interpersonal disputes arising from conflicting expectations between yourself and significant other in your personal or working life. 4. Interpersonal sensitivity of repeated patterns of social isolation or unfulfilling relationships, linked to recurring depressive episodes or long term depression.
